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Direct linkBecerra, Leslie A.; Hill, Elizabeth M.; Abraham, Kristen M. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2022
This mixed methods study assessed the emotional impact of therapeutic art techniques in reducing subjective anxiety by comparing three options for drawing a self-portrait: literal self-portrait, mandala, and free drawing. Undergraduate college students (n = 60) were provided with a mood induction procedure and then randomly assigned to a drawing…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Anxiety, Art Therapy
Carsley, Dana; Heath, Nancy L. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: This study compared the effectiveness of mindfulness coloring (mandala), free drawing/coloring, and a noncoloring control activity for university students' test anxiety, and assessed the relationship of dispositional mindfulness and response to intervention on mindfulness and test anxiety states. Participants: University students (n =…
Descriptors: Test Anxiety, College Students, Metacognition, Program Effectiveness
Ashlock, Laura E.; Miller-Perrin, Cindy; Krumrei-Mancuso, Elizabeth – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2018
This study compared the effects of 4 different coloring activities on state anxiety scores to determine whether adult coloring books are as effective as other coloring activities in reducing anxiety. Participants were 160 undergraduates attending a private, Christian, liberal arts university. After engaging in an anxiety induction activity,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Art Activities
Carsley, Dana; Heath, Nancy L. – School Psychology International, 2018
The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a mindfulness art activity (mandala) with a free draw/colouring activity on test anxiety in adolescents with an examination of gender differences, and to assess the effect of dispositional mindfulness on students' experience of mindfulness and test anxiety states. Participants were 193…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Attention, Freehand Drawing, Grade 8
Eaton, Judy; Tieber, Christine – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2017
This study tested whether the structure of a coloring task has an effect on anxiety, mood, and perseverance. Eighty-five undergraduate students were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 coloring conditions: free choice, where they could color an image using any colors they wanted, and forced choice, where they were instructed to copy the colors of a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Freehand Drawing, Color, Task Analysis
Kruk, Kerry A.; Aravich, Paul F.; Deaver, Sarah P.; deBeus, Roger – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2014
A preliminary experimental study examined brain wave frequency patterns of female participants (N = 14) engaged in two different art making conditions: clay sculpting and drawing. After controlling for nonspecific effects of movement, quantitative electroencephalographic (qEEG) recordings were made of the bilateral medial frontal cortex and…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Freehand Drawing, Sculpture, Females
